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Victoria Cross - Roll of Honour
The first Military Cross awarded to the Tyneside Irish Brigade, was given to the bombing officer of the 27th Battalion (4th Tyneside Irish), Lieutenant John Woodall Marshall of South Shields. At great personal risk, he crossed No Man’s Land to where a non-commissioned officer (NCO), 27/53 Sergeant James Burk of West Hartlepool, was trapped, badly wounded on the German wire. Lieutenant Marshall carried the wounded NCO back to the British lines under very hot and heavy hostile firing but this brave act was in vain, for Sergeant Burke died shortly afterwards at the battalion aid post.
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22040 Lance Corporal Thomas Bryan - 25th Battalion Tyneside Irish
60989 Private Ernest Sykes - 27th Battalion Tyneside Irish
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